Papers include: family correspondence; certificates (letters of recommendation) from school inspectors about his character and ability to teach, 1822, 1828; list of his students in Salisbury (N.Y.), 1832; an agreement for Cross to teach for three months in Pulaski School District No. 9, 1847; notes about boarding the poor at Pulaski (Mich.), 1851, farm account book, 1859-1970; language book of the Potawatomi Indians, undated; military duty exemption note, 1833; peddling notes, 1823; an agreement from his wife (Mary Wilbur)'s parents for her to marry Cross and one from Cross to marry Mary, 1837, and miscellaneous. Also included is a Scrapbook, 1817,1951, with newspaper clippings on various topics from Michigan, Boston, N.Y. (Stte), New Orleans, and Charleston, as well as other newspapers; a sketch of Geo. Baker, age 4, with a bearded man, 1887; a sketch of another bearded man with glasses by Jack Young, 1941; five colored prints of women's dresses from "Les Modes Parisiennes" from Peterson's Magazine, 1869,1885; a memorial lock of hair booklet, undated; a small photograph of a bi-plane, undated; a program for a musical-literary program at the U.S. Indian School chapel, Sept. 30, 1904; a pension letter to Cross in Bloomer center (Mich.), June 20, 1876; a mortgage indenture of Cross and William H. Slocum of Pulaski (Mich.), 1876; a mortgage indenture of Isaac and Alvira Wheeler and John Wilbur, Jr., also of Pulaski, 1864.
